Container is Nashville, TN resident Ren Schofield's experimental excursion into the world of beat oriented electronic music. Container’s first full length album was just released on the Cleveland/Vienna based label Spectrum Spools and has triggered response such as: "like Surgeon on DMT covering Cybotron jams with a bubble machine", and "Container has created a twisted, time-warping and insolently fucked lo-fi techno record that has to rank among the very best full-length statements of 2011."

For many years now Unicorn Hard-On has been infiltrating the American and European underground with her unusual style of animal inspired electronic dance music. Incorporating elements of techno, industrial, noise, and synth pop, four sequenced Electribes are used to create eerie backgrounds of tonal interference, glittering splashes of synth, and gradually multiplying pulsing beats, forming a wall of mutated dance madness.

Two kids who hooked up their electronic wizardry are challengingthe boundaries of electronic dance music. In form of an organic, constantly shapeshifting pulse, played on a pile of electronics and drum machines, Laser Poodle is a sweet late night stroboscopic trip. Laser Poodle is Amsterdam based Fyoelk (Germany) and Yellow Galactic Human (Denmark).

is the solo project of Hannah from Amsterdam. She is exploring the many sides of the cassette tape as a medium for capturing and manipulation of sounds. Fieldrecordings and melodic sequences are layered into uplifting sonic spheres of the extraterrestrial kind, with a warm and open feel to them. In her adventures she uses electronics, toy keyboards, violoncello, various acoustic objects & instruments and voice. Hannah is also playing in the free music group Cotopaxi (with Fyoelk), who have toured in Europe and the United States. They are organizing concerts in Amsterdam as the "Hallo Gallo" collective.

A fun night all around at EVR as we welcomed drummer Russell Burn back to the show. Russell played in legendary Scottish post-punk outfit Fire Engines back in the day and keeps himself busy these days recording with a new project called Spector Bullets. Russell played us some of his new music and we talked about John Peel and Italian Prog-Rock. I'm also very proud of my mixing skills in the first half of the program with Gravitar>Pharoah Sanders>Total.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

New York is a vanishing city—no street or block looks the same year to year. Geographically and culturally, Silent Barn has always been “out there.” Located in the Ridgewood section of Queens, the live/work/performance space was founded in 2004 by artists and musicians on that now all-too-familiar eastward flee from Williamsburg and it’s homogenization.

The story of the artist, the developer, the well-heeled culture-vampire, young professionals, and the displacement of the working class is a tale that has been told but Silent Barn always felt different. Located on a stretch of nothing in the middle of nowhere, Silent Barn’s shelf-life as a haven for the presentation of the unmarketable in art and music seemed longer than most. The perpetually sharpie-marked among us figured as long as people dedicated to the fringe ran it and the sidewalk was kept clear, the space would continue flourish. Over the course of it’s seven years of existence, Silent Barn has nourished the careers of notable NYC acts like Vivian Girls, Woods, Liturgy, Real Estate and scores of lesser-known artists across the spectrum of the modern underground from around the world. Most recently, it was home to the massively successful Ende Tymes Noise festival.

This past weekend, Silent Barn was hobbled by a blast of cold urban reality — the venue was robbed and ransacked. Thieves walked out of Silent Barn’s doors onto Wyckoff Avenue carrying thousands of dollars of audio equipment, cash, and artwork and sent an already tight-knit community into shock. Silent Barn’s Facebook page has been lit up with well wishes and words of solidarity from fans and musicians from around the world. Benefit shows and compilations are in the works to help keep Silent Barn operating and its principals have just launched a Kickstarter to help defray the costs of replacing that which is replaceable and to make necessary renovations to keep the space safe and viable for years to come.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Amazing show this past weekend if I do say so myself. Not only did we have an amazing live performance by Lussuria but our faithful intern blew our minds with some choice early industrial cuts. We also heard a stunning piece from our friend Noveller's latest LP on Weird Forest and some great atmospheric BM from Ash Borer.

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Weird times this past weekend at EVR. There was some kind of goth shindig happening at Luck Cheng's (the drag-queen bar/restaurant across the street from EVR) and we were interrupted by pock-faced suburbanites every 10 minutes from Long Island asking where the party was at. We were then visited by a swank-y lawyer type who was taking two fine young women out on the town. None of this, of course, is audible on the archive.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Not much craziness to report from this past week's show: I tried to get our interns to make out, we jammed a newly acquired original pressing of my favorite metal record of all time—Napalm Death's Scum, and we heard some of Lussuria's amazing Ghost Entanglement LP. Oh, yeah, Duke from the East Village based prog-rock group Spaces came by with his newly recorded album. In a rarely seen act of charity, we played a track off of the record much to Duke's delight. It wasn't even awful. Look at that. Check out all the cool shit we played below and listen to the archive.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Thanks to my friend C. Spencer Yeh, we had the extraordinary pleasure of welcoming Ju Suk Reet Meate and Jackie Oblivia on to this past Sunday's Just Music program. Meate helped form the legendary non-music ensemble Smegma in the early 70's and Jackie joined just in time for the classic Smegma LP Pigs For Lepers. While Smegma is still a band(the new record, Mirage, on Important Records is AMAZING), Jackie and Ju Suk have been perfroming as The Tenses. Ju Suk explains The Tenses as a "smaller, more focused version of Smegma." They played an amazing set live in the studio and we spent the ensuing 45 minutes picking their brains about the origins of the LAFMS, Portland's punk rock scene in the 70's, and a bunch of random shit. We could have listened to their stories for hours...

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

This past Sunday, I was joined by friend/conspirator Bob Bellerue. Bob's involvement in the underground includes performance, running a record label(Anarchymoon Recordings), and show curation. This summer, Bob has put together an outstanding three days of experimental sound known as Ende Tymes. The festival runs June 24th through the 26th and features performances by a shit-ton of amazing performers from around the country. Bob dropped by the EVR studio with a suitcase of recordings of Ende Tymes performers and we had one of the darkier,noisier Just Music programs in recent memory.

Monday, June 06, 2011

Still reeling from watching one of our heroes, Richard Pinhas, the night before, the Just Music show was justifiably vibed out on a whole new cosmic level of vibeness. We played half a dub-step tune and sick new jams from the Bezoar Formations label out of San Francisco.

Monday, May 23, 2011

It was Casey's birthday night, he was out celebrating and I had the ship to myself. We got proggier than usual with blasts from the great SBB from Poland and France's Magma. I also played some great new stuff from Digitalis Ltd—Samantha Glass and U Made Ship—and a track from my new favorite band, Dope Body, from Baltimore. Here's the tracklisting, check out the archive and leave comments on the Just Music page.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Another night, another two hours of weirdness. This week's show was full of jams supplied by friends old and new. Our friend Jonas who runs the Phaser Prone label dropped off a fresh batch of tapes including work by Mark Lord, Dust and Roe Enney. Wm. M. Berger's Prison Tatt Records has some new documents out and we jammed the T.O.M.B. one-sided LP and Dhampyr's new transmission. We also debuted a track from Marc Orleans and Tom Carter's Eleven Twenty-Nine project on Northern Spy Records. Check out the archive here.

Monday, May 09, 2011

It was a lovely evening in the East Village. Met a couple who had spent the day on ecstasy and munching on barbeque. Casey was lost. My friend Mike Wolf came down to the station loaded up with weird shit and I fell in love with Suck At Sports and Rainbow Bridge Recordings via their Inappropriate King Live tape.

1. Suck At Sports - Sperm/Ovum from I Will Wreak Havoc On You CD2. Nomad - Kogeki Kaishi from Shigiru 7"3. The Shrapnelles - My Mom Is Hot from Asscalibur 7"4. Blue Cheer - Come And Get It from Outside/Inside LP5. The Lemondrops - I Live In The Springtime from Crystal Pure! LP6. The Harbinger Complex - I Think I'm Down from Nuggets Vol.12: Punk LP7. Melvins - Charmicarmicat from Eggnogg EP8. Halo of Flies - Headburn from Headburn 12"9. Broken Water - Stop Means Stop from Peripheral Star EP10.Surgery - Nationwide from Bronto LP11.Masonna - Good Times Bad Times from Open Your Cunt CS12.Skullflower - Wave(Excerpt) from Xaman LP13.Rosemary - No You Listen from Extreme Music From Women CD14.Cosmic Psychos - Custom Credit from Down On The Farm EP15.Jane - Rock And Roll Star from Jane III LP16.Vertigo - Master Of The Universe from S/T LP17.Magnog - Lost Landing from S/T LP18.Simon Wickham-Smith + Richard Youngs - Chiliast Hymn from Ceaucescu LP19.Pussy Galore - Pretty Fuck Look/Spin Out from Groovy Hate Fuck LP20.The Membranes - Mr.Charisma Brain from The Gift Of Life LP21.Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Edge Central from You Can't Kill Stupid EP22.Inappropriate King Live - Missing You Drearily from Actions Are Louder CS23.The Dead C - Speed Kills from DR503 LP

Composer, guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of France's major experimental musicians. A pivotal figure in the international development of electronic rock music, Pinhas' stature in France is analogous to Tangerine Dream's in Germany: the father figure of an entire musical movement. The pioneering, aggressive music produced by his band Heldon during the 1970s, fusing electronics, guitar and rock, heralded the industrial and techno to come and remains today vital and unsurpassed. Pinhas has been ceaselessly innovative in a career spanning more than 30 years, and recently has been exploring areas of the international ‘noise’ scene. His newest release, Metal/Crystal shows him working with two of that scene’s highest profile artists: Merzbow and Wolf Eyes.

Mountains

Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, two sonic explorers whose long history, shared philosophies, and love of sculpting sound, has resulted in some of the most densely layered and blissful music crafted in recent memory. The duo is known for obscuring the boundaries between acoustic instrumentation and electronics. Their newest Thrill Jockey release Air Museum blurs the lines between acoustic and electronic music even more without sacrificing melody or the delicacy of their sound. It is an album of firsts. It was the first album that the acoustic instruments were not processed via a computer. Instead, the processing of the instrumentation (acoustic and electric guitar, cello, accordion, piano, bass etc.) was done using a variety of pedals, modular synths, and other analog techniques. While acoustic instruments were used extensively, the album manifests itself sonically as their most “electronic” record yet.

Forma

FORMA's primary influence is at the intersection of electronic based Krautrock (Kraftwerk, Cluster,Harmonia, Popol Vuh) and the explosion of late 70's early 80's underground synthesizer music grouped broadly under the umbrella term Minimal Synth. They create repetitive yet complex evolving structures of sound, producing a wholly improvised music driven by live drum machine programming, synchronized analog synths and spacious melodies. On their eponymous debut LP, the Brooklyn-based electronics trio merges the melodic flow and primitive rhythms of their motorik predecessors with the hypnotic drones of Minimalism, creating an intricate work both addicting and rewarding with repeat listens. Like many of the LP's eleven tracks, the churning and relentless FORMA237B draws its energy from a precarious equilibrium between structural rigidity and free improvisation, a dynamic at the heart of FORMA’s universe. With lush, distant soundscapes as interludes between these peaks, FORMA’s inaugural full-length is a harmonious and expansive expression of the enduring power of Kosmische musik.

Carlos Giffoni

Carlos Giffoni is a Venezuelan electronic musician who resides in the New York City area since the year 2000. Currently using modular synthesizers, hand made custom instruments, and various types of analog and digital synthesis in the composition of electronic music pieces, as well as improvising live with local and international musicians. His recent solo work has focused in live analog synthesizer pieces that put his style in a line with early techno and cosmic electronic music while maintaining the harsher edge of his previous noise works. He founded the No Fun Productions label, which has released works by Noveller, Onehatrix Point Never and legendary Japanese noise group C.C.C.C.

Monday, May 02, 2011

Casey and I were joined by Heath Moerland a.k.a Sick Llama on the Just Music program last night. Heath played a fine set and was joined by Zac Davis for a mid-jam clarinet/acoustic guitar duel. EVR's computer got AIDs over the weekend so there is no playlist but you can check out the archive below. We definitely played some Peter Michael Hamel, Prurient, Force Publique Congo and Casey played some whack funk shit that didn't belong....Same as it ever was.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Ende Tymes Festival is a 3 day festival dedicated to DIY experimental music and video art. With workshops, discussions, screenings, and live music performances, Ende Tymes will expose local fans and artists to processes and production techniques, as well as the work of distant and older practitioners of the hands-on, street-level experimental media arts. Workshops will be conducted in DIY radio transmission, and Victorian Synths and Other Analog Wizardry. A discussion will occur between elder members of the noise and experimental music scene to talk about "street-level experimental music and the evolution of interface and community." Screenings and live performances with video will happen on 3 consecutive nights, featuring curated artists as well as selected pieces from a public call for submissions. Live performances of noise and experimental music will happen on 3 consecutive nights featuring nearly 40 acts from across the US

Monday, April 11, 2011

Casey and I were joined this week by another musician we both greatly admire. Daren Ho, a.k.a Driphouse, lugged all of his gear from Brooklyn to the EVR studio and proceeded to blow us all away with a killer set of cosmic circuitry. Our friend Mike Wolf was in town and spun some nice scummy noise rock records to keep us grounded as well. Check out the playlist below and listen to the EVR archive,which is brand new and supports pause, fast-froward and reverse, here.

Monday, April 04, 2011

Casey and I welcomed Michael Morley (The Dead C,Gate) on the Just Music program on April 3rd, 2011. Michael did a live performance using his laptop and a synthesizer program for a handheld Nintendo system. The set was really incredible. Michael followed that up with a raw demo for his next Gate LP; a beat driven piece of warped techno that will surely send long-time Gate fans into a spiral of confusion. Mr.Morley hung out for the whole show, chatted with us, ate some matza(donated by our new friend and rabbinacal student Ari)played some tracks and bought some art from our buddy PMD. Listen to the archive here.

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Razxca is the one man analog noise project of Mikhail Gusenkov. In email exchanges with Gusenkov, he informed me that he maintains an anti-consumerist lifestyle and chooses to live simply;wearing 2 dollar pants in a self sustained eco-village outside of Moscow refraining from drugs and alcohol. Over a year a ago he sold most of his music collection and some musical instruments including a djimbe. He cites Iannis Xenakis as an influence on his work along with dub and that he seeks to "create original dub vibes in noise wall." In his pursuit of making"rhythms without beats" Gusenkov utilizestape loops and "fail DATA",which he explained as using a trial version of Cool Edit pro and "playing" files not associated with sound and recording them to tape.

Gusenkov has amassed over 160 releases since 1997 with most of them being self released and always free of charge. Gusenkov sites the American net label Proc-Records as his biggest proponent, compares his music to Swedish project Blod, and claims association with the Low Bit aesthetic movement. The Ukrainian label Genetic Trance, whose stated mission is the dissemination of free information,recently anthologized the majority of Razxca's output on Works(2000-2010)and is available for free. At over three gigs, Works is impenetrable and I defy even the most brain-rotted static fiend to make it through the first two tracks which combine to make up the piece "42 Hours of Noise Kundalini." That title is no exaggeration, by the way. The brazen and self-indulgent scope of a piece that would take a work week to get through both horrifies and fosters a sneering respect for an artist who truly has no designs of gaining commercial appeal. Works contains shorter pieces as well; varying from sparse minimalist sketches to fully formed noise blowouts reminiscent of Japanese noise outfits such as C.C.C.C. For the uninitiated, I suggest checking out his split release with Italian artist Dust Cult. At a very palatable 7 minutes, "Uo" is a superb realization of intricately layered psychedelic noise that does indeed summon rhythmic ghosts. Razxca's N-Series cassette is another fine entry point to the work of this intriguing Russian artist.

Monday, March 07, 2011

Great show this week. We played some new jams from Gift Tapes and Hospital Productions,and mixed in harsh Canadian noise with left field boogie and a touch of dancehall before finishing with a great new tape by Brooklyn's own High School Confidential. check out the archive here. (Brand new archives by the way, fully searchable and pausable!)

Seattle-based alto saxophonist Wally Shoup has been involved inimprovised music as a creative artist, writer, organizer, and DJ sincethe mid-1970s. His first album, 1981’s independently releasedScree-Run Waltz, was a duo with percussionist Ross Rabin that showedShoup creating a unique language equally influenced by Europeanimprovisation and Southern R&B, blues, and soul musics. Over thecourse of his long and varied career he’s worked with Davey Williams,La Donna Smith, Evan Parker, Paul Flaherty, Jack Wright, ThurstonMoore, Chris Corsano, Nels Cline, Reuben Radding, and many others. Hecontinues to help organize Seattle’s Improvised Music Festival as hehas since 1985, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010 makingit the country’s longest running US event of its kind. In addition tohis diverse involvement in improvised music, his paintings have beendisplayed in several galleries and appear on many of his album covers.

C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan 1975, and now lives inCincinnati, Ohio. He is active both as a solo and collaborativeartist, as well as with his primary project, Burning Star Core. As animproviser, Yeh is focused on developing a personal vocabulary usingviolin, voice, and electronics. As a sound artist/composer, Yehexplores with all aspects surrounding a work, aurally and physically,as elements key to the cumulative experience. He is concerned not onlywith the sensual aspects of 'sound organization,' but the gesturalqualities as well. Yeh has collaborated with a deep and ever-growinglist of artists and groups, including Tony Conrad, New Humans withVito Acconci, Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Amy Granat with JuttaKoether, Okkyung Lee, Justin Lieberman, John Wiese, Don Dietrich, NateWooley, Chris Corsano, Prurient, and Jandek.

Ben Hall is a drummer, percussionist, tympanist and a founding memberof the 1/4 speed Michigan chamber jazz group Graveyards, as well as aco-curator of the experimental label brokenresearch. Other groupsinclude Mêlée with cellist Hans Buetow and trumpeter Nate Wooley,Trauma with guitarist Chris Riggs, The New Monuments with Don Dietrichof Borbetomagus and C. Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core, a duo withviolinist Mike Khoury, a duo with saxophonist Wally Shoup, a trio withJoe Morris and Chris Riggs, and a quartet with Vic Rawlings, GregKelley, and Chris Riggs.

Featuring members of Brooklyn's finest experimental/progressive soundmercenaries Grasshopper,Opponents, and Rust Worship, Goblin War Triodelivers some kind of doom infused free sprawl that, had they beenaround in the 60's, would have fit very nicely on the ESP-Disk'roster.

C. Lavender is a multidisciplinary artist currently residing in theupper Hudson Valley region of New York . Previously working primarilywith plunderphonics, she now focuses on sound and performance as awhole. Her performances vary in instrumentation, length, and intensitywith consideration to intuition and mood which reflects the atmosphereof the space. C. Lavender has performed at The Voice of the Valleyfestival in West Virginia, The International Noise Conference in Miamiand The New York Eye & Ear fest. www.clavender.net

Ceci Moss is a writer, musician, DJ, and curator. She plays bass inthe band Cellular Chaos and previously recorded solo material as Mi Orand the Pedestals, putting out releases on Gift Tapes and Two ThousandTapes. http://amillionkeys.com/

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to have a gchat with Jeff Witscher a.k.a Rene Hell last week. We rapped about minimalism, punk rock, and motorcycles. Jeff and Type were gracious enough to give us an exclusive sneak peak of the new Type LP. Head over to East Village Radio to read the interview and hear the new jam.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Our old friend Tom Carter stopped by Just Music last night and proceeded to blow us away with a live set. Easily on of the most amazing live sets we've ever had on the show. Check out the archive here. (By the way, www.evr.com has been revamped and the archives can be paused and searched!)